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  • Kellogg's Bet on 'Racial Healing' By Stephen Thernstrom, The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2010. [read article]
  • "New Haven's Racial Test: Merit doesn't matter for city firefighters." By Abigail Thernstrom and Stephen Thernstrom, The Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2009. [read article]
  • "Staving Off the 'Yellow Peril': The University of California regents attempt to curtail Asian admissions" By Stephan Thernstrom, NRO, February 06, 2009. [read article]
  • "Racial Gerrymandering Is Unnecessary " By Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, The Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2008. [read article]
  • "Obama in Black & White: Candidate as inkblot." By Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, National Review Online, August 29, 2008. [read article]
  • "Examining the United Church of Christ." By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, Real Clear Politics, May 06, 2008. [read article]
  • "Taking race out of the race." By Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2008. [read article]
  • "Separation Anxiety." By Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, The Wall Street Journal, November 30, 2007. [read article]
  • Demographic Perspectives on Diversity, Racial Isolation, and the Seattle School Board's Plan to "Cure" Residential "Segregation". By Stephan Thernstrom. [reprint]
  • “Harvard’s Crucible: A question of academic freedom, and meritocracy, and sense,” National Review, April 11, 2005. [reprint]
  • “Talk About Affirmative Action: John Roberts could make a big difference on the Court,” (with Abigail Thernstrom), National Review Online (NRO), July 28, 2005. [reprint]
  • "Have We Overcome?", November 2004 Commentary (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Secrecy and Dishonesty: The Supreme Court, Racial Preferences, and Higher Education," Constitutional Commentary, vol. 21, forthcoming 2004 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Deconstructing the Urban NAEP Results," Gadfly, January 22, 2004 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Rediscovering the Melting Pot—Still Growing Strong," Tamar Jacoby, ed., Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to be American (New York: Basic Books, 2004)
  • "Does Your 'Merit' Depend upon Your Race? A Rejoinder to Bowen and Bok," in Steven M. Cahn, The Affirmative Action Debate (New York: Routledge, 2nd edition, 2002) (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "The Demography of Racial and Ethnic Groups," in Thernstrom and Thernstrom,
  • Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America, (2002)
  • "Schools That Work," John E. Chubb and Thomas Loveless, eds., Bridging the Achievement Gap (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002) (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Racial Preferences in Higher Education: An Assessment of the Evidence," Stanley A. Renshon, ed., One America? Political Leadership, National Identity, and the Dilemmas of Diversity (Georgetown University Press, 2001) (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Admissions Impossible: California without the SATs," National Review, March 19,2001 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Even in This Election, It is Not Class Warfare," Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2000 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "The Wrong Answers," Taking Sides, ABCNEWS.com, June 16, 2000
  • "Affirmative Action," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (with Abigail Thernstrom
  • "Plenty of Room for All: Does the High Level of Immigration to the U.S. Hold a Lesson for Europe?" Times Literary Supplement, May 26, 2000
  • "One Drop Still--A Racialist's Census," National Review, April 17, 2000
  • "Answer the Census. The Alternative is Worse," Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2000 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Civil Rights: What Went Wrong?" Wall Street Journal, January17, 2000 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Status Anxiety" (review of Nicolas Lemann's The Big Test), National Review,December 6, 1999
  • Comments for symposium on the definition of "merit," New York Times, October 23, 1999
  • “Alamo in Ann Arbor,” National Review, September 13, 1999
  • "Black Progress," ch. 4 of Christopher Foreman, ed., The African American Predicament, Brookings Institution Press, 1999 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Reflections on The Shape of the River," UCLA Law Review, Vol. 46, June 1999 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Asian Americans versus Multiculturalism," Academic Questions, Spring 1999
  • "Racial Preferences: What We Now Know," Commentary, February, 1999 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Another Bend in The Shape of the River," Washington Post, December 14, 1998
  • Breakfast Table," Slate, December 8-11 and 14-18, 1998; nine days of guest columns on the current news
  • "The Consequences of Colorblindness," Wall Street Journal, April 7, 1998 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Black Progress: How Far We've Come--and How Far We Have to Go," The Brookings Review, Spring, 1998 (with Abigaill Thernstrom)
  • "American Apartheid? Don't Believe It," Wall Street Journal, March 2, 1998 (with Abigail Thernstrom),
  • Contribution to Symposium, "Is Affirmative Action on the Way Out? Should It Be?" Commentary March, 1998 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Good News About Racial Progress," Reader's Digest, March 1998 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Diversity and Meritocracy in Legal Education: A Critical Evaluation of Linda F. Wightman's 'The Threat to Diversity in Legal Education,'" Constitutional Commentary, v. 15 (Spring, 1998)
  • "Farewell to Preferences?" The Public Interest, Winter 1998
  • "The Scandal of the Law Schools," Commentary, December 1997
  • "Dialogue" with Randall Kennedy on the subject of race in Slate; five exchanges between October 14 and December 16, 1997 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "We Have Overcome: The Good News About Race Relations," The New Republic, October 13, 1997 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Black Progress: The Greatest Gains Came Before Affirmative Action," San Diego Union-` Tribune, September 21, 1997 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "The Real Story of Black Progress," Wall Street Journal, September 3, 1997 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Caught in the Skills Gap: Why the Progress of Young Black Americans Has Gone Into Reverse," Times Literary Supplement, June 6, 1997 (with Abigail Thernstrom).
  • "The Prescience of Gunnar Myrdal," The Public Interest, Summer 1997 (with Abigail Thernstrom).
  • Review of Michael Lind, The Fourth American Revolution, The Public Interest, Winter 1996
  • Review of Dinesh D'Souza, The End of Racism and Manning Marable, Beyond Black and White, December 8, 1995 Times Literary Supplement
  • "Critical Observations on the Draft Final Report of the Special Committee on Race and Ethnicity to the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias," Public Interest Law Review, 1995 annual edition
  • "The Promise of Racial Equality," in Lamar Alexander and Chester E. Finn, eds., The New Promise of American Life, The Hudson Institute, 1995 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • Review of Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation, Washington Post Book World, April 2, 1995
  • "The Black-White Student Mismatch Problem in University Admissions, Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Winter 1994/1995
  • "Racial Bias in the Federal Courts?" Wall Street Journal, March 22, 1995
  • "Reflections on Race, the Central City, and the Economy," The Aspen Institute Quarterly, Winter, 1994 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
  • "Asian Americans: The Declining Significance of Race," The American Experiment, Center for the New American Community, Summer, 1993
  • "Hello Columbus," American School Board Journal, October, 1991 [reprinted in Spring, 1992 American Educator]
  • "American Ethnic Statistics," in Donald L. Horowitz and Gerard Noiriel, ed., Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience, New York UniversityPress, 1992
  • "McCarthyism Then and Now," Academic Questions, Winter, 1990-91
  • "The Minority Majority Will Never Come," Wall Street Journal, July 26, 1990
  • "Counting Heads: New Data on the Ethnic Composition of the American Population," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Summer, 1989.
  • "Just Say Afro," The New Republic, January 23, 1989.
  • " Poverty and Progress Revisited: A Response to Reiss, Frisch, and Pessen," Social Science History, Spring, l986
  • "Poor but Hopeful Scholars," Oscar Handlin, ed., Glimpses of the Harvard Past, Harvard University Press, 1986
  • "The Humanities and Our Cultural Heritage," Chester Finn, Diane Ravitch, and P. Holley Roberts, ed., Challenges to the Humanities, Holmes and Meier, 1985
  • "Comments on Zunz," Journal of American Ethnic History, Spring, 1985
  • Review of Hasia Diner, Erin's Daughters in America and Dennis Ryan, Beyond the Ballot Box, New England Quarterly, June, 1984
  • "Ethnic Pluralism: The U.S. Model," Charles Fried, ed., Minorities: Community and Identity, Springer-Verlag, 1983
  • "Ethnic Groups in American History," Lance Liebman, ed., Ethnic Relations in America, Prentice-Hall, 1982
  • Review of Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America: A History, Washington Post Book World, August 16, 1981
  • "A Conversation with Stephan Thernstrom," Brace Stave, ed., The Making of Urban History, Sage, 1977
  • "The New Urban History," Charles Delzell, ed., The Future of History, Vanderbilt University Press, 1977
  • "Two Centuries of Immigrants," The American Issues Forum, 1976
  • "Rejoinder to Alcorn and Knights," Historical Methods Newsletter, June, 1975
  • "A Comment on Socialism and Social Mobility," S.M. Lipset and John Laslett, eds., The Failure of a Dream?, Doubleday, 1974
  • "The Growth of Los Angeles in Historical Perspective," Werner Z. Hirsch, ed., Los Angeles: Viability and Prospects for Metropolitan Leadership, Praeger, 1971
  • "Reflections on the New Urban History," Daedalus, Spring, 1971
  • Foreword to Michael Katz, Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools, Praeger, 1971
  • Review of John Armstrong, Factory Under the Elms, Journal of American History, December, 1970
  • Review of Mayer and Wade, Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis, American Historical Review, October,1970.
  • "Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations on Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn, 1970 (with Peter Knights)
  • "Working Class Social Mobility in Industrial America," Melvin Richter, ed., Essays in Theory and History: An Approach to the Social Sciences, Harvard University Press, 1970
  • "The Myth of American Affluence," Commentary, October, 1969
  • Review of Daniel P. Moynihan, Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding, Commentary, May, 1969
  • "Poverty in Historical Perspective," Daniel P.Moynihan, ed., On Understanding Poverty, Basic Books, 1969
  • "Quantitative Methods in History: Some Notes," S.M.Lipset and Richard Hofstadter, ed., Sociology and History: Methods, Basic Books, 1968
  • Comments for Symposium on Black Power, Partisan Review, April, 1968
  • "Notes on the Historical Study of Social Mobility," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Spring, 1968
  • "The Case of Boston," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1968
  • "The Historian and the Computer," Edmund Bowles, ed., Computers in Humanistic Research, Prentice-Hall, 1967
  • "Up From Slavery," Perspectives in American History, 1967
  • Review of Richard Elman, The Poorhouse State, November 13, 1966 Washington Post Book Week
  • Review of Gerhard Lenski, Power and Privilege, American Sociological Review, October, 1966
  • Review of Christopher Lasch, The New Radicalism in America, Dissent, January, 1966
  • Review of E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, Dissent, Winter, 1965.
  • "'Yankee City' Revisited: The Perils of Historical Naïveté," American Sociological Review, April, 1965
  • Review of Donald B. Cole, Immigrant City, Journal of Economic History, June, 1964
  • "Oswald Garrison Villard and the Politics of Pacifism," Harvard Library Bulletin, Winter, 1960
  • Review of S.M. Lipset and Reinhard Bendix, Social Mobility in Industrial Society, Dissent, Autumn, l960

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